Regarding my own post 5 -
A discussion of the Shankaracharya's date and related - by people way more knowledgeable than myself - is at this IF thread:
History Of Kanchi Math
I'm not commenting on whether they're right or wrong - because I obviously don't know that. Just that I think the members are reliable and also knowledgeable.
My point in #5 was that I wouldn't accept christocommunists rewriting history as with their recent 'Namboodiris came to Kerala in 700 and 800 ce' which puts Adi Shankaracharya even later than that.
Even 500ce for Namboodiris' arrival in Kerala makes no sense, because with the west's calculation of 500ce for Adi Shankaracharya, he'd have to be born within a few generations of them arriving in Kerala. <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
A discussion of the Shankaracharya's date and related - by people way more knowledgeable than myself - is at this IF thread:
History Of Kanchi Math
I'm not commenting on whether they're right or wrong - because I obviously don't know that. Just that I think the members are reliable and also knowledgeable.
My point in #5 was that I wouldn't accept christocommunists rewriting history as with their recent 'Namboodiris came to Kerala in 700 and 800 ce' which puts Adi Shankaracharya even later than that.
Even 500ce for Namboodiris' arrival in Kerala makes no sense, because with the west's calculation of 500ce for Adi Shankaracharya, he'd have to be born within a few generations of them arriving in Kerala. <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->